turtlepower

Well, I think you'll be fine. Making a film is not unlike writing a paper. Decisions have to be made in the best interest of content in both cases. If you have strong textual analysis skills, you should be fine.

My SO taught a freshman comp course that centered around film. He called it Argument in Film and taught films like Milk, Precious, Waiting for Superman, Hard Candy, among others. He really enjoyed it.

In theory. It's short-lived, though. One acceptance leads to anxiety about the next, and indecision about funding compounds the whole problem. I hate this process!

To Whomever Posted the Acceptance: You MUST tell me all about your visit! And congrats!

I think the problem with trying to decipher the actions of ad coms is that they're all comprised of people. There's a scary human element involved in this process, and there are certainly too many variables to quantify when that's taken into account. I've given up trying to figure out the rhyme and reason of it all. It's far too maddening. :/

I got an email from the DGS.

Poo. This whole process is vile, Vile, VILE! Thanks for the congrats, though. I hope there's good news coming your way.

I got the big, fat waitlist. I suppose that's not terrible, and I'm glad the torment is over. Sort of.

I think that those invited to the campus visit will be admitted, pending final offers from the graduate school. One of the FAQs on their website is about visiting the campus. The answer is this: "We intend to invite our top applicants to the campus before we require them to make a decision." I gather that all invitees can assume admission.

Haha. Thanks for the heads up. I'm not much for linguistics or grammar. I mean, I understand grammar's function, but as long as we're communicating effectively, I think it's sort of elitist to point out grammatical mistakes for the sake of "perfection".

Does anyone have any idea how many PhD applications they see in a season? Their program is so new. It's hard to find this data.

Isn't "it is me" correct in this case? Me is the object pronoun. "It" is the subject of that sentence.